Creationists, please avert your eyes. News from the University of Alberta’s school of paleontology today that some of the earliest mammals had a lethally poisonous bite. From today’s Edmonton Journal, the fossil in question belonged to “Bisonalveus browni, a furry, insect-eating creature about the size of a mouse that lived in North America some 60 […] More »

I just wanted to take a moment to note Paul Wells’ recent advice to Stephen Harper. “Do something!” And then go back, way back to a blog posting I made about a month ago. Here’s me in the comments section later: But seriously folks, does anyone else think that those rumours about a “dump Harper” […] More »

I took my time this morning and went to get Live 8 tickets just now, but I’ve discovered that all of them were snapped up in 25 minutes! How disappointing. More »

UPDATE: Tabarrok is still clued out. If God suddenly appeared, all lighting bolts etc., the correct scientific reaction would not be “oh, I guess the theists were right all along.” It would be: “Gee, I wonder where God came from.” Again, if we can just accept the existence of organised complexity as a brute fact […] More »

Any day now the Fraser Institute will come out with its “news” that Tax Freedom Day — a device that is meant to show Canadians when they start “working for themselves” instead of the government — is just around the corner. This year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has beat them to the punch […] More »

The Post today reports on a very interesting new study from the Bank of Nova Scotia, warning that the fiscal arrangements between Ottawa and the provinces are a total mess. No kidding. I haven’t read the actual study yet, but while some of it sounds a bit iffy (the Bank appears to endorse the notion […] More »

Parkdale-High Park MP Sarmite Bulte gives her party a pulse check because she thought it would be okay to NOT be in Ottawa all day when 15 confidence motions were on the schedule. In the end, she made a mad dash into Parliament, having missed some minor votes and just in time for the government […] More »

I can’t resist. Seems Hugh Jackman has signed on to reprise his role of Wolverine in the eponymous spinoff film, to begin filming once X-Men 3 wraps in late 2005. For fans of the series, this is big news. And in my opinion, Jackman is the best thing about the films, but that’s in part […] More »

Some time back in early 2004, the producers of a new dramedy in development for CTV, entitled “Robson Arms” contacted This Magazine for a permission to use the magazine as set dressing. Seems there’s a corner shop in the new show and This Magazine fit with the style the designers were hoping to convey. It […] More »

For the none of you who care, Rebelarse Vende is sitting at number 9 on the El Mundo charts, and will be no. 4 in El Periodico de Catalunya when their list is released on Thursday. More »

Given the cheering coming from the more chauvinistic precincts of the British press, one would think that May 29th was Agincourt, Trafalgar, and Waterloo rolled into one. The French had barely had barely finished shrugging non to the proposed European constitution before the Eurosceptics started gloating. Mark Steyn captured the spirit with a column in […] More »